Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 22

Dat same ebenin all tree dem serbant, dem come ter de cunjur man an fetch de Ring, an confess say dem been tek um, an dem bague de cunjur man fuh fix plan fuh clear dem.

Who acts: same ebenin, dem · What happens: come, confess, say, be · To what, where: ter man, tek um · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same ebenin, dem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ebenin	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ebenin	amod
3	ebenin	ebenin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 serbant	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dem	compound
6	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serbant	compound
7	serbant	serbant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dem	punct
9	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serbant	conj
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	ter	ter	X	_	14 man	compound
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 ter	flat:foreign
13	cunjur	cunjur	X	Foreign=Yes	11 ter	flat:foreign
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fetch	det
16	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	obj
17	de	de	ADP	_	18 Ring	case
18	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 fetch	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 confess	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 confess	det
21	confess	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 come	parataxis
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 confess	ccomp
23	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 um	nsubj
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 um	cop
25	tek	tek	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 um	compound
26	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bague	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bague	det
29	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bague	compound
30	bague	bague	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 um	conj
31	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	30 bague	flat:foreign
32	cunjur	cunjur	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 man	compound
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bague	appos
34	fuh	fuh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 plan	amod
35	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 plan	compound
36	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 man	conj
37	fuh	fuh	INTJ	_	38 clear	discourse
38	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 dem	amod
39	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 plan	appos
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	that same ebenin	ter man a fetch	all dem serbant and dem nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	confess	present				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	participle	dem	tek um and a dem bague	a dem bague conj	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 22

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Pragmatics

Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 7, sentence 22